Places joseramirez Wants to Go

The largest camel market in West Africa

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

A nondescript dirt lot hides an intriguing center of shamanic healing.

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

Stalin's secret bunker.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

Every Friday, Sufi dervishes whirl around the tomb in a trance-like state as part of a sacred ritual called dhikr.

Hidden under a center for the elderly are the dungeons which were used during the Spanish Inquisition.

Documenting the nationalist movement in Northern Ireland, with an emphasis on the history of political prisoners.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Unrefined, uneven, and unstable—this is the real McCoy of Pakistani suspension bridges.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Former headquarters of the KGB.